Discovered: North Africa Early 1943 by kjer_99
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Description
A German Fieseler Fi 156 "Storch" observation light plane, flying somewhere over North Africa, has discovered an American Army column of trucks on the move in the early hours of daylight.
D Day for Operation Torch, the Allied Invasion of North Africa was November 8, 1942. The Soviets had pressed the Allies to open a second front to relieve the German pressure upon them. Roosevelt had wanted to invade Europe, but Churchill pursuaded him that North Africa would be a wiser choice. Very bluntly, the English high command had very little faith in the abilities of their new American ally to wage war and wanted to incorporate the American armies under British command. George Patten and the other American generals insisted upon independent American army commands. The British may have felt justified in their low opinion of American forces, after the American rout at Kassarine Pass by General Rommel's tanks.
The Americans did recover eventually and proved their ability to fight. One thing that made the US troops very angry with the British was that all the battles were reported as British victories or the American role in any given battle was ignored or minimized. This policy of the British continued through the Sicily and Italian campaigns. Unfortunately, it gave the American public--not to mention the British--a distorted view of our Army's ability to wage war until D-Day Normandy and after.
Well, enough history. The terrain is actually a Martian terrain! Hope you enjoyed the render!
Jeremy
CREDITS:
Bryce 6.1, PhotoShopPro 5.0.
Fieseler Fi 156 Storch by mandun (Google Warehouse).
Vehicles: "Beans and Bullets" by Ed Baugmgarten.
Comments (22)
Gisela
Very realistic render and good story too.
Spacer_01
lovely render to go with an informative piece of history :) I like the terrain and building dust clouds further down the convoy. I don't think it matters that its an alien terrain, but rather that it resembles close enough to the landscape you intended it to be ;)
Umbetro38
wow - very very relaistic scene - perfect in all details
Garlor
Refreshing insight and fine modelling of one of my fave types. BTW I was also in air traffic in the RAf.
shadownet
Super great job on this one. Love the motion blur, the depth of field, the dust trail, just great all around!
geirla
Nice terrain and good work with the dust trail! I just wish you would use a little less image compression on the .jpg.
neiwil
This is special! really excellent render and one of my Fav birds.Agree with previous comments...great dust, hard to get the right balance without obscuring too much detail but you've got it right with this one.All around a great job......yes, it's got to be a FAV.
grafikeer
Great work Jeremy...the dust trails of the trucks are very well rendered,and the cropped Pov adds greatly to the dynamic composition...gotta agree with geirla on the compression,it does take away slightly from the image,but this is still a great render my friend!
waldodessa
Nice one Jeremy!
deevee
Well done Jeremy!
mininessie
great render Jeremy!
emmecielle
Excellent work! :)
FrenchKiss
Lovely job!
debbielove
Just got this one... Little behind! again... Stunner.. outstanding work, brilliant dust, got to be a Fave! rob.
NetWorthy
I love the action blur and the dust kicked up by the vehicles. Very well staged, like a vidcap from a movie!
Django
Fine dust effects on this, if you carry on posting war pictures lol im tempted to revenge my self with a Django von Richthofen series. Hehe
efron_241
great discovery !
louly
Great effect with the vehicles and the sand dust in the desert, looks very realistic.
ontar1
Fantastic scene and models, love the dust cloud, outstanding work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
e-brink
Excellent! I love the motion blur in this one.
Steeleyes101
Very fitting pice for Veterans Day. This one also reminds me of an old tv show I loved as a kid called The Rat Patrol about the WWII North African Corps during the war. Bravo!!!
Kindredsoul
yes I do enjoy the render, I did bryce a long time ago....what amazes me is the motion blur of the lower part of the image you did...Bryce still excel in photo-realistism render than any other 3d packages I know of in my opinion, I havent used it much because lack of upgrades to keep up with Vue vegetation capabilities...